Occasionally, when I’m speaking to a class of 100 18-year-olds, I make the mistake of referring to them […]
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Joe Biden once famously said that Will and Grace “did more to educate the American public [about gay […]
By the time I gave up on finishing The Lord of the Rings, I like to think that […]
Why do we play the shell game of the so-called “knowledge economy”? The reasons are many, and few […]
Rust Cohle, the dyspeptic protagonist of HBO’s True Detective, made both nihilism and logorrhea cool again in 2014, as […]
Historians have always had a tough time writing about media. The danger of technological determinism tends to loom […]
[Editor’s Note: This piece closes out our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month coverage. Be sure to check out […]
With Stephen Colbert departing for CBS to replace David Letterman in 2015, I’d like to preemptively ring the […]